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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav on Wednesday dropped his memo to staff about Toby Emmerich stepping down as Chairman of the Motion Picture Group and the three new studio divisions being put in place. It’s a slightly similar structure to the way Disney handles its franchise brands, with the hope that DC will…

Below is Toby Emmerich’s departure note to staff at Warner Bros on Wednesday. As we reported this morning, the chairman of Warner Bros. Pictures Group is segueing to a lucrative five-year production deal on the lot, so he’s not going far. He apparently was offered to stay, but would have had to cede oversee on Warner…

UPDATED with more details, confirmation by studio: Toby Emmerich is out as the head of Warner Bros’ motion picture studio. Replacing him are Michael De Luca and Pam Abdy, who recently exited the helm of MGM. This had been rumored since before they exited that studio (they’ll stay into the summer until their contracts…

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has learned that Blair Rich will leave her post at year’s end as Warner Bros Pictures Group President, Worldwide Marketing, and Warner Bros Home Entertainment. Rich is a highly respected exec in the marketing space with strong filmmaker relationships. She has held the top marketing title since…

Rumors have raced for weeks that exec changes at WarnerMedia would soon reverberate to movie content as the effort to streamline production continues. Two of the rumored moves have happened: Jessie Henderson, EVP Original Feature Films for HBO Max, decided to leave the company. Another HBO Max exec, Nikki Ramey, will…

The Joker sequel news that hit a trade today is great click bait, but multiple inside sources said that while a sequel to the billion-dollar-grossing film is an obvious likely eventuality that makes all the financial sense in the world, at this point there are no deals for a sequel, nor even any negotiations with…

Warner Bros said Wednesday that Warner Bros Pictures Group chairman Toby Emmerich has extended his contract with new responsibilities, while New Line president and chief content officer Carolyn Blackwood has been promoted to the newly created position of Warner Bros Pictures Group COO. The moves were revealed by Ann…

On a rainy Wednesday last week at the Metrograph on Manhattan's Lower East Side, Bruce Springsteen unveiled Western Stars to a small group of family and friends that ranged from bandmate Steven Van Zandt, Sopranos creator David Chase to CBS Records magnate Clive Davis, who signed The Boss. The film marks Springsteen's…

So, what’s been the big change at Warner Bros. studios since AT&T took over? “We used to have three bars, but now we have five bars,” joked Warner Bros. Studio chairman Toby Emmerich about the studio’s new corporate parent at today’s Produced By Conference. But, in all seriousness, Emmerich, who sat down in a morning…

Former Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara may have stepped down in the wake of an alleged misconduct, but his legacy as a studio boss will be remembered. Warner Bros. Studio Chairman Toby Emmerich had a special word for “someone who is not here in Vegas with us today” but to whom he wanted to give special mention. “None…

UPDATED with John Stankey memo: WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey sent an internal memo to staffers Tuesday officially naming Toby Emmerich, Peter Roth and Kim Williams as the company’s interim leadership team. “We all recognize that operating day-to-day in this manner will be a little different from the normal course of…

Michael Fuchs, who was HBO's CEO in the early 1980s, was both innovative and famously argumentative with producers or with the press. I never got past the five minute mark in my conversations with Fuchs without a dispute flaring – I even kept a chart on the timing of our clashes. Fuchs didn't trust reporters who wrote…